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Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

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Sixteen-year-old Megan Meade is sick of the army brat lifestyle. During the course of her entire life, she has never truly made any friends, and has been pulled out of school after school to travel to some new exciting place with her military parents. But this time, Megan is putting her foot down. Which is why her parents are on their way to South Korea, while she is headed for Boston, and the McGowan family. The McGowan family consists of two parents, and seven boys - no daughters. And while Megan remembers all of the boys as being uber brats, she never expected them to grow into total hotties. Total hotties whom she's sharing a bathroom with. But Megan never realized that infiltrating a family of guys would lead her to find out so many strange quirks about all of them. And leave her crushing on more than one. Now Megan has to try and fight her romantic feelings, communicate with Miller - one of the boys who happens to have Asperger's Syndrome, a type of Autism - and survive the McGowan household. Otherwise, she'll be headed to South Korea, where she'll have to wear a uniform to school.

Kate Brian has written many fabulous teen books, but I don't think any of them can top MEGAN MEADE'S GUIDE TO THE MCGOWAN BOYS. After all, how many young adult books on the market can give you the lowdown on all things guy? Megan is an inspiring character, who is presented as being shy and weak, but is truly a hard-headed, intelligent, strong female character, who will win fans left and right. The guys she is forced to live with may be jerky at times, but most of them are sweet underneath it all, and female readers will quickly be choosing what McGowan boy they'd like to date. Large doses of humor, romance, and a little guy-lowdown accompany this book, and will call-out to readers near and far.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

So Kate Brian basically took every High School girls fantasy and wrote about it? Your parents get shipped to Korea and you get to live with 7 Abercrombie model looking guys. That's exactly what happens to Megan Meade. She's got Sean the quiet biker rebel, Evan the resident greek god, and Finn the shy artist. Okay and then there is the rest who don't seem to like her very much. Especially Doug, wannabe Eminem and bitter about her taking up space in his former room.

Another person not thrilled about the situation is Evan's girlfriend and Megan rival on the soccer team. It's a knock down drag out fight on and off the field for these two. Because even fantasies turned into books need a little conflict.

I got three books from the library and this was the one that had me still reading past page 5. I don't think I put it down once. Kate Brian is a great author who knows exactly what girls want. Info on boys! And this book is not only entertaining and funny, it also gives you an inside peek at the world of boys. Pick it up today.

I LOVED this book! Not only did I read it in one night, it had so many interesting conflicts, characters, and twists, all my friends have read it as well. This is a must-read. :)

Megan Meade's parents are off to Korea, and Megan decides to stay in the states with a family friend- The McGowan's. Megan recalls them all being sticky icky boys who she's not exactly looking forward to living with for a school year. But, oh, is she surprised when she arrives at the McGowan residence to find Abercrombie Model-worthy guys. At first, she isn't convinced they've changed over the years, but after a few flings with the oldest, and sparks flying with another, she's changed her mind. And, of course, there's the evil high school queen who challenges Megan on the soccer field- and with a certain McGowan boy. Megan finds surprising friendships and unexpected sparks in this tale of a teen girl who's just trying to survive her existence in a house full of guys. But even though it sounds like a superficial teen novel, it has several real-life conflicts and you can relate to all of Megan's trials and tribulations.

Again, I couldn't put it down, and I was even a little jealous of Megan in the end. This book is great through and through and I can't say enough good things about it. :)

This is one of the best books I have ever read! Megan is just the best character! Well, maybe I think that cause I personally like it when the girls are better than the guys and also very athletic.


In this book, Megan, a 16 year old army brat, finds out her parents are about to whisk her away to South Korea just when she isnt prepared for it. I mean who would be, she hasn't moved for three years and has actually made some friends. For the first time Megan puts down her feet and says she isn't moving to South Korea. Hearing this her parents give her an option either go to South Korea or go live with the Mcgowan family for 2 years.


The Mcgowans are a family of 9 with 2 parents and 7 teenage boys. Megan chooses the Mcgowans. There a most interesting string of events occur including: everyone thinking she hooks up with Evan, Doug giving her the cold shoulder for no reason all the time, finding a friend and maybe somthing more in Finn, and trying to talk to Miller who has Asperger's syndrome.
Overall, I think this is one of the best teen books I have ever read

So Megan's life isn't perfect but whose is? This is one of the best books i have read this summer and abosolutly love it!!!! You keep wanting to read to find out what has happened (good or bad) to her and her life. I would love for this book to have a sequal. You can take so much from this book! Including laughs! This book is awesome and hilarious with some reality that we can all relate to. It may be a total fluff book just for fun but WOW it is phanomenal!

I can guarantee that 90% of the teen girls who read this will want there to be a sequal. There are so many different elements and details intertwined to equall pure entertainment. Sometimes you will be reading the book embarrassed for Megan, other times you will be proud of her, you might feel bad for her but most of the time you will want to be in the book being Megan. This is such a great book, just read it you will not be dissapointed (you would have wished you read it sooner) ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE BOOKS!!! I really want Kate Brian to make a sequal of this book and then maybe another and another, I can't wait, the first book was just too good not to have a sequal.

This book was so great! I read the online reviews and i thought the book looked good so i checked it out at the bookstore and i ended up reading it in three hours!! I loved it!

This book was about an army "brat" whose parents get transferred overseas to Korea and she is given the option of going or staying with a family friend in Massachusetts. She ends up choosing to live with the McGowans. They have seven boys described as Abercrombie gods. She has to deal with another new school, a rival soccer player who also happens to be a jealous girlfriend, and SEVEN boys who don't really respect her privacy or seem to want her to live there. I loved it!!

This was a very good book. It was about this army brat whose parents are moving to Korea and her parents gave her the choice to stay with a family friend or to move to Korea. The family friend has seven boys (jocks) who have never lived with a girl except for their mom. She learns a lot about them and there is a lot of drama.

I liked this book because it was full of drama and humor. There is also romance which you cannot read a book without. It also is about Megan finding herself. I definitely recommend this book to any girl. It was really good.

I like the main character very much. The boys seem rather immature. There were exciting highlights and suspense as you wonder which boy she'll end up with.

The flaws are that the ending is very rushed; the girl friends are not in sight; and the inconclusiveness is not satisfying.

Megan has always moved around a lot, but this time her living situation has changed even more drastically than usual. When she refused to pack up and move to South Korea with her parents, both in the army, they proposed another option: spending her last two years of high school living in Boston with the McGowans. John McGowan is an old friend of her father's. What makes this so different? The fact that the McGowans have seven sons. Megan is an only child, and can't imagine living with seven boys!

Life with Evan, Sean, Finn, Caleb, Ian, Miller, and Doug McGowan is as foreign to Megan as South Korea would have been. Her best friend from Texas, Tracy, even calls it an immersion experience; Megan will go in clueless and come out speaking the language of boys!

Even if the McGowan boys and Megan are supposed to be siblings, they don't exactly relate that way. After all, they haven't seen each other since they were little kids. Now Megan is in hostile territory; she's not exactly welcomed by each of the nine members of the McGowan family (though Regina, John's wife, is more than thrilled to have another female in the house, taking tomboyish Megan on shopping sprees and to the spa). And then there's the fact that Finn and Evan are, well, hot. And John and Regina even had a family meeting to tell the kids that they're all siblings now...but siblings don't want to kiss each other.

On top of dealing with the drama of living with the McGowan boys, Megan also has to handle starting over at a new school. She gets off to a good start when she makes the soccer team and even a few new possible friends. That quickly goes sour, though, when she is targeted by Hailey, Evan's girlfriend, who's jealous of Megan's talent on the soccer field--and her living arrangements. Can Megan handle Boston and the McGowan boys, or will South Korea turn out the be the easier option?

MEGAN MEADE'S GUIDE TO THE MCGOWAN BOYS is a fantastically fun book! It's full of great characters; even the minor characters seem three-dimensional. Kate Brian is a talented writer, and this novel is an awesome page-turner. I devoured this book; I read at every spare moment and took less than twenty-four hours to finish it--on a weekday! Megan's transition from shy to outspoken didn't feel one hundred percent real to me, but that was only a tiny issue; the book was still great. This is one book that definitely feels like there could be a sequel in the works (which is exciting), but that didn't stop it from being a complete (and completely awesome) story on its own.

Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce